Pilot meets Gehlot loyalist Khachariyawas

October 04, 2022 18:25

Sachin Pilot

Days after a crisis erupted in Rajasthan Congress, former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot met food and civil supplies minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas at the latter's residence in Jaipur on Monday night.

The meeting, which lasted for one-and-a-half hours, assumes significance in the wake of the recent political developments in the state.

However, Khachariyawas, who earlier was in Pilot camp and switched to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot camp during the political crisis in 2020, said on Tuesday that talks with Pilot was nothing new.

He refused to divulge details of the meeting. Khachariyawas also met Chief Minister Gehlot on Tuesday.

Pilot, who was considered the front runner for the CM post in case Gehlot contested election for party's national president post, went to the residence of Khachariyawas on Monday night.

There was no statement from Pilot about the meeting.

But Khachariyawas told reporters in secretariat that having talks with Pilot was nothing new because he and Pilot sit on the same bench in the state assembly.

However, he said that it was after a long time that the meeting took place.

"It's nothing new if we talked. We have been talking in the assembly. If Pilot sahib comes to my house, then obviously we will not do bhajan keertan will do all talks. We talked about everything and what we talked about is not worth sharing here," he said.

"I met the chief minister. I am a minister, and meeting with him also keeps happening," he said.

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